Last book you read?

the poetics of space

this is the best fuckin thing ive ever read. everything im reading lately is so wonderful

[robertsona]

i just read six degrees of separation for school and really liked it.

[Glitterati]

can someone recommend some essential victorian literature? im reading bram stoker's dracula right now and i really like it, so im looking for similar stuff, like hg wells, jules verne, robert louis stevenson, arthur conan doyle, mary shelley (i want to read frankenstein), oscar wilde

[Ventriloquist]

Originally Posted by NEEDTOPOST

the poetics of space

this is the best fuckin thing ive ever read. everything im reading lately is so wonderful

that looks really interesting. putting it up on my list

[Haz]

Originally Posted by EightMilesHigh

can someone recommend some essential victorian literature? im reading bram stoker's dracula right now and i really like it, so im looking for similar stuff, like hg wells, jules verne, robert louis stevenson, arthur conan doyle, mary shelley (i want to read frankenstein), oscar wilde

Wuthering Heights

Originally Posted by Ventriloquist

that looks really interesting. putting it up on my list

if it looks interesting to you you'll probably like it but i'll let you know that before this book bachelard was a very highly respected philosopher who approached things very scientifically but this book is VERY much poetic, sentimental. if you consider yourself a sentimentalist and also if you have fond memories of certain spaces or of certain ways of physically inhabiting a past/present home i'd say get it right away.

i can definitely see a lot of people thinking it's rubbish.

also be prepared to read plenty of the pages twice. but goddamn it's good. it's been like miracle-grow for my imagination

[Ventriloquist]

reviews I read were saying that the translation of the book is poor

actually the translation seems pretty good from what i've read so far. there are some editing issues though. people might be getting that from bachelard's style - he likes to use the same words in different senses in this cyclical patterning that seems redundant but is really just him being playful. i havent read anything that didnt make perfect sense

like this

From my viewpoint, from the phenomenologist's viewpoint, the concious metaphysics that starts from the moment when the being is "cast into the world" is a secondary metaphysics. It passes over the preliminaries, when being is being-well, when the human being is deposited in a being-well, in the well-being originally associated with being... Within the being, in the being of within, and enveloping warmth welcomes being. Being reigns in a sort of earthly paradise of matter, dissolved in the comforts of an adequate matter. It is as though in this material paradise, the human being were bathed in nourishment, as though he were gratified with all the essential benefits.

must've been a bitch to translate, and its kinda a bitch to read the first time, but once you get his style and the context it makes perfect sense (this excerpt is pretty exceptional, though. it's not all like this)

[Ventriloquist]

lol yeah. i am patient enough to read it.

[Haz]

Some occasionally hammy writing steeped in melodrama as she recounts an abusive childhood and the impact it had on making her the kind of person she became, but there is a kind of raw rock & roll fervour to everything Carver brings to the table here that makes up for it by being undeniably entertaining. Full of priceless he said, she said accounts of her interactions with who is who of the underground counterculture of the 80's through her work with Suckdog and her zine Rollerderby, but you could probably expect that from a woman who can count GG Allin, Jean Louis Costes and Boyd Rice as former love interests.

This makes for quite a freakshow, but a genuinely touching one as not only Lisa but just about everyone around her gradually has to come to terms with living in the "real" world.

[Ventriloquist]

started reading brave new world. loving it.

[Haz]

Murat do you need to hack it to read any ebook on the kindle, or can you just read what you buy from the store on there?

what file formats can it open?

[EyesWideShut]

Some early short stories form Irvine Welsh that contain his trademark slang, violence, and suspicious but funny cast of characters. While its the weaker of Welsh books ive read i still found it enjoyable and great reading while your on the shitter or just in the mood for something fun like taking enjoyment in someones heart-break, drug addiction, body transformation, and sleazy friends.

[Ventriloquist]

Originally Posted by Haz

Murat do you need to hack it to read any ebook on the kindle, or can you just read what you buy from the store on there?

what file formats can it open?

Hmm I haven't tried reading anything other than the official "legal" books. I think it can open .pdf files and some other weird file extensions I can't recall. I have no clue on how to do it tho. All the books I bought so far were either 0.99 or somewhere between 3 and 5 bucks so I'd feel bad if I skipped those and went for pirated ones

[Haz]

yeah that's a pretty good deal

Originally Posted by EyesWideShut

Some early short stories form Irvine Welsh that contain his trademark slang, violence, and suspicious but funny cast of characters. While its the weaker of Welsh books ive read i still found it enjoyable and great reading while your on the shitter or just in the mood for something fun like taking enjoyment in someones heart-break, drug addiction, body transformation, and sleazy friends.

I remember A Smart Cunt being my favourite story out of that

[EyesWideShut]

Originally Posted by Haz

yeah that's a pretty good deal



I remember A Smart Cunt being my favourite story out of that

Yea A Smart Cunt was good. My favs were The Granton Star(fly transformation), that one where the dude was obsessed with movies, and The Shooter. I might re-read the first stories since i put the book down around 7 months ago and picked it back up.

Welsh can do no wrong.

[geddylee2]

trainspotting

[Haz]

is awesome

in a re-reading books mood recently, started on Stephen King's The Stand

the poetics of space is teaching me so much about how to write good, meaningful poetry

this book is changing my life

[808]

someone recommended 'the sea' by john banville and after like the first 10 pages i gave up on reading it because it was pretty boring. i know i shouldn't have given up on it so quickly but banville is irish, and the irish are a pretty boring people.